redletterdave writes: "After blocking Google’s Gmail service for a little more than a week, the Iranian government has decided to remove the digital barrier after a barrage of complaints, some of which came from Iran’s own parliament. While the Iranian government has released no official statement as to why Google’s Gmail service was blocked in the first place, several Iranian news agencies reported the ban was connected to the inflammatory anti-Islam film “The Innocence of Muslims,” which had been uploaded to YouTube, one of Google Inc.’s many subsidiaries."